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Author:   Andrew Leach ,  John Macarthur ,  Maarten Delbeke
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9781472459916

ISBN 10:   1472459911
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   28 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: Defining a problem: modern architecture and the baroque, Maarten Delbeke, Andrew Leach and John Macarthur; Engaging the past: Albert Ilg's Die Zukunft des Barockstils, Francesca Torello; Grossstadt as Barockstadt: art history, advertising and the surface of the neo-baroque, Albert Narath; The 'restless allure' of (architectural) form: space and perception between Germany, Russia and the Soviet Union, Luka Skansi; Geoffrey Scott, the baroque and the picturesque, John Macarthur; Against formalism: aspects of the historiography of the baroque in Weimar Germany, 1918-33, Ute Engel; Riegl and Wolfflin in dialogue on the baroque, Evonne Levy; Beyond the Vienna School: Sedlmayr and Borromini, Marco Pogacnik; Pevsner's Kunstgeographie: from Leipzig's baroque to the Englishness of modern English architecture, Mathew Aitchison; The future of the baroque, c. 1945, Andrew Leach; Giedion as guide: Space, Time and Architecture and the modernist reception of baroque Rome, Denise R. Costanzo; Reading Aalto through the baroque: constituent facts, dynamic pluralities, and formal latencies, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen; Taking the sting out of the baroque: Wittkower, 1958, Andrew Hopkins; Pierre Charpentrat and baroque functionalism, Maarten Delbeke; From spatial feeling to functionalist design: contrasting representations of the baroque in Steen Eiler Rasmussen's Experiencing Architecture, Anthony Raynsford; From Michelangelo to Borromini: Bruno Zevi and operative criticism, Roberto Dulio; Between history and design: the baroque legacy in the work of Paolo Portoghesi, Silvia Micheli; Steinberg's complexity, Michael Hill; The 'recurrence' of the baroque in architecture: Giedion and Norberg-Schulz's approaches to constancy and change, Gro Lauvland; The future of the baroque, c. 1980, Maarten Delbeke and Andrew Leach; Bibliography; Index.

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Andrew Leach is Professor of Architectural History at Griffith University, where he holds an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. John Macarthur is a professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Queensland, where he is Director of the research centre ATCH. Maarten Delbeke is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at Ghent University and head of the research project 'The Quest for the Legitimacy of Architecture in Europe, 1750-1850' at the Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines.

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